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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

AT Topeka, Kan, a man was tried a
few days ago under the prohibitory law
charged with selling peach cider that was
intoxicating. The manufacturer of the cider
testified that it was made from apples, tartaric
acid, sugar, citric acid, extract Of peach
iavoring and rain water. Expert testimony
was introduced by the State to prove that the
cider was Intoxicating. The defendant in
troduced large number of witnesses to prove
that the cider was harmless, but the jury
brought in verdict Of guilty, and the de-
PENDANT was sentenced to imprisonment in
the county Jail. He deserved to be punished
for selling a vile compound like that, whether
it was intoxicating or not, though probably
those ingredients are harmless compared with
the poisonous drugs that enter into most of
the stuff sold over bars
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

Ours. and there is no reason TO believe it
would become either better or cheaper under
government control. On the contrary, there
is every reason to believe it would be less
efficient and more expensive. At all events,
if the cost of telegraphing were reduced there
would be large deficit every year to be made
good by the people. and largely by the class
of people who do not use the telegraph. Even
in England, where the conditions for postal
telegraph are much more favorable than they
are in this country, the business is run at
heavy loss. But aside from that, We do not
want any more government management
meddling with private affairs than is abso-
lutely necessary. The pretense that gov
eminent telegraph would destroy the present
monopoly is mischievous fallacy. The most
it would do would be to substitute one monop-
oily for another, one without responsibility or
pecuniary liability for one that is held to
strict account The fact is that for every
argument that can be advanced in favor of a
postal telegraph. a score of better ones can be
cited against it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
BRUTAL AND SENSELESS.

The English government can gain nothing
by persistency in the attempt to degrade po-
itical prisoners to the level of common fell
ons, but will only succeed in winning sym
pathy for the men it persecutes. Opponents
of the Irish cause affect to be greatly amused
over the indignation of Mr.. O'Brien and Mr..
Vaudeville at being deprived of their own
garments, but there is side to the affair
which is far from humorous. To clothe these
men in convict garb is to infict unwar-
ranted outrage upon them, and will only serve
to deepen the resentment and bitterness al
ready felt by the people they represent. The
individual insult is one that would hardly be
tolerated under similar circumstances in this
country; treatment such as that suffered by
Mr.. Vaudeville would, at least, be followed
every quarter if inflicted upon like prisoner
here. The personal injury, however, is of
little moment compared to the purpose which
is evidently in view, namely, that of formally
the lowest grade of criminals, and SO belit-
Ting their cause. They are struggling for the
freedom of their race, for the privilege of at
least partial self-government for the right to
live and not starve in the land of their ances-
tors, and the world so understands their OBJ
ject. Whether they are right or whether
they are wrong they are most assuredly
neither thieves nor murderers, and the En-
glish are only delaying peace and increasing
the number of their enemies and critics by
treating them as such.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

THE Presidents totr Of conquest seems to
have been a tour without conquest. The
ultimate harvest is, not satisfactory to his
hackers and bottle7hqlders I'M, Washington.
General Boynton telegraphs from that city:
"Those who have arrived from various
points, covering the line of the summers
swing around the circle. agree in the state
nsent that the President increased his unpop-
ularity in every quarters The universal COM
plant Is of stiff and sepelent dignity that
gave no suggestion of a Democratic President,
and that the people were everywhere held at
arms length as if theyHwere class to be
avoided. -
by common agreement among Southern
men. the trip through that section resulted
only in generating unpopularity. The total
absence of any signs of 1lnbending by way of
response to the cordiality with which the
Southern people sought, to greet him gave
general offense From one end of his journey
to the other comes, the report that the
strongest impression which Mr.. Cleveland
left that the trip and its demonstrations
bored him beyond measure, and that he took
pains to conceal the fact"
The man is finding his level. A homely
adage says "you cannot make silk purse
out of sow's ear" Neither can you make a
great man out of chunk of coarse grained
humanity
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


GEORGIA critic on a homely bride Her face
would wean calf,
MONTGOMERY (AEas) Advertiser The way to
build great city is to bet on your town and
back it. se4
GENERAL SPARKS, late of the Land Office,
Washington, contenplates a trip to Europe.
His wife is anxious to go, and they will probably
start in a few weeks.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN NICHOLS, of North Caro-
lima, who is classed among the Independents. is
pronounced by theDemocratic Raleigh News as
thoroughgoing a Republican as there is in the
country. o
'.No man." says a prominent Philadelphia
physician who is an enthusiastic vegetarian,
..who eats pound of maccaroni daily, and the
balance of whose food is of a kindred nature,
will ever become drunkard-'
An Albany voter, who had been sseen" and
fixed, made a Little mistake election day.
He marched up to the polls and handed in his
tickets, and with them two little printed Slips
each bearing the1egend, PAY the bearer 81.
vEREsToHAGIN the Russian artist will paint
some realistic scenes of poverty and eviction
among the Irish peasants. He has also made
some sketches Of the tramps' rendezvous in Traf
aIgar square. Eioffdon, which he will reproduce
with accumulated horrors on canvas.
Boston Herald. One of those handsome women
who never outgrew the naivete of their youth
returned frondtlse dentists the other day, after
a protracted siege. Did it hurt you much2' she
was asked stYes; but do you know my dentist
is such glum sober man. have to talk to him
all the time tq keep his spirits up
THURSDAY Pee. /, is the date set for the
unwilling of the Garfield statue at Cincinnati.
The statue j at Race street and Garfield place,
but the chief exercises will occur in Music Hall
Those invitsd to be present and speak are ex-
President Hayes ex-senator Thurman Senator
Sherman, Senator Harrison, Senator Beck
Governor Foraker, Representatives Carlisle.
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humanity.

If it be true that any set of Republican
members. elect of the Council are caucusing
how to effect the displacement of serviceable
men in the fire department, or in other de-
partments of local administration, simply for
the purpose of making room for partisan or
personal favorites, they may as we'll stop it
now. If any such thing should be attempted
the plotters would hear Rome howl. The
Republican party of Indianapolis has had quite
enough of four-by-seven policy in the past
on the part of councilmen and others who
assumed to stand as its representatives. and
is not now in a mood to tolerate any more of
it. The Republicans have the majority Of
the next Council, both branches, and they
will be held responsible for what is done.
The people who make up the party will not
permit the prospects and character of the
party to be imperiled by cheap two-cent
scheming
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
rLoK1DA,s EX-SENATOR rENN1LEss.
Locked Ont, Forced to Sleep in Railways,
and Living on a Poor Mans Crust.

Locked Ont, Forced Sleep in Railways,
and Living Poor Mans Crust.
Detroit Special to chicago herald.
When Senator Jones came to this city three
Yeas ago on a visit, he was a social lion. In
the upper house of Congress he mad achieved
an enviable reputation for ability and integrity.
Besides. ne genial sociable able, and
possessed of suffient cash to live expens,velv.
With his means he ready to aid the
numerous calls of charity, and he became
identified with the current local movements of
men and affairs He occupied luxurious apart
ments at the Russell House. sought out the
congenial spirits. and made desirable acquaint-
ances all over the city. Among his acqoaint-
was Miss Clotilde Palms. young lady of
great wealth. pleasing manners and high SOCIAL
position. Far from being beauty, she
theless was found by Senator Jones to be quiae
attractive. and he at once became her avowed
sutton. He persistent. but it is believed
that the lady never for a moment gave him a
serious thought and the long siege came to
ipslorious end. 1t is understood that Jones
thinks it was through no fault of his own or
prejudice on the part of Miss Palms that he did
not succeed In this, probably his last love
affair.
But an explanation of why he failed, or why
he refused to return either to Washington to
Florida to leave Detroit at all. is necessarily
somewhat vague, because the reasons which
he hints are uncertain and apparently based up
a foundation of little fact and much imagina-
ton. He believes himself the victim of
spracy within the Democratic party. This
combination against him involves statesmen.
politicians and newspapers. 1t followed him
through a tour OF Europe, made chiefly manifest
at the banquet given him by the Lord Mayor of
Dublin; dogged his official life at Washington,
thwarted his purposes, and was a menace TO his
life. This. In brief, has been the Senator'S bette
noir. He has limited at assassination if he went
home. has malice in items of the Eastern
press that seemed perfectly innocent to all
others, and has traced the evidences of
spiracy among legislative members in their
prescribed course of public duty. He has vowed
that he will down" ell this opposition, and
with this vow is linked another. that he will re-
main in Detroit until that purpose is
pished At time Senator Jones's belief that
he was the victim of a conspiracy found vent in
some remarkable letters written to his friends
mere They said to have been violent to an
astonishing degree. Whatever may have been
their character, IL from them that then
started the first whisperings of lack Of faith In
his mental condition On this point il is i'm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

THE judicial wisdom of Dogberry Row,
possibly following precedent. for aught we
know, rules that saloon keeper can not be
convicted of violating the Sunday law unless
proof be submitted as to the name of the per-
son or persons to whom liquor was sold. This
Is in accordance with the usual custom of
constituting all technicalities in favor of the
law-breaker. In this case the gravamen of
the offense is the selling, the name of the
pers on to whom sold is not of the essence of
the case, any more than the cut of his clothes
or the color of his hair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
As to Trusts.
Boston Herald.


The formation of a so-called "trust" is not
necessarily an Ubiquitous proceeding trust
cannot prevent competitor except by keeping
the price of the article placed under trust man
agement at point so low as to make it unprof-
liable for others TO engage in its man ufactEre
or sale. 1t is even possible that tho range of
prices under a trust might be lower than they
otherwise would be, for. by consolidation. bust
ness can be carried on at a greatly reduced ex-
pense, just as the great retail dry goods stores
in this city sell their wares a tar lower price
than was, would be, asked by the small deal
whose business they have absorbed A
trust may develop into a public abuse; but it is
rather the use that is made of it than the thing
itself that should be criticised Organization is
the order of the day among workingmen and
CAPITALISTS alike, and the result in ri her case
may be good may be bad, as the objects aimed
at ard the methods adopted are benefcent or
nArnicious.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
sApETY FOE TRAVELLERS.

Death by burning in railway car. as re-
Gently again illustrated by the Kouts disaster,
and death by drowning in shipwreck, as
recently again illustrated in the sinking Of a
ship in the English channel, should give
fresh impetus to an examination of railway
and ship appliances for safety of passengers
in such cases. The horrors of the Kouts
had been heated from outside the cars-from
the engine, if possible; and the death list of
the Scholten would have been greatly re-
duced, if indeed all had not been saved, if
there had been sufficient boats in serviceable
condition.
The dull public have at last become aroused
on these points, and everywhere there is
demand on the railways for some other
method of heating than by stoves, and the
ship companies will be called sharply to
account for overlooking their ships and for
insufficient life-saving appliances. The Legis-
latures of several of the Eastern States have
required railways running through their
boundaries to have some improved heating
next year. Properly, the railways are giving
earnest attention to the question of car-heat-
ing The more intelligent railway officials
are not waiting for law compelling them to
act, but giving early and earnest
thought to the matter The fitness of
official for his responsible position may be
determined by the readiness with which he
takes up this vital subject. Ten thousand
persons travel by rail where one travels by
sea, and the subject of safety to passengers
is relatively important. Congress should do
for the ship companies what Legislatures have
done for the railways Beyond, and stronger
than any enactment, is the aroused public
sentiment and to this railways and ship COM
panies must respond if they expect to remain
in public favor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
THE TRANSFER CAR NUISANCE.

In the trial of the case for nuisance against
the Street Railway Company, by reason of the
transfer car, the company try to prove that
it is not nuisance to everybody. Certainly
it may not be. 1t may not be a nuisance to
person living on Delaware street, Ash
street, yet it is undoubtedly nuisance to
those having business In its neighborhood.
The company claim that the right of way
granted by the city charter gives them the
use of the entire street. 1t is not the right
of way the people object to, but the wrong
of obstructing the way to others. Frank
Bird has the right of way over the streets for
his carriages, but that does not give him the
right to maintain his transfer Office in the
middle of the street. If the street-car COM
pany can place their transfer office in the
middle of Washington street, the main thor
oughfare of the city, what prevents them
from putting their car sheds or their stables
on other streetsP The same reason that allows
Mr.. johnson to put his transfer on Wash
wagons and express wagons, that pay tax
and procure license. to establish their head
quarters on Washington street and their
headquarters on the Circle. The city may
belong to Mr.. Johnson's company under the
present Council, but a Council will come some
of these days that he does not own. Such
thing as transfer ofice-it is not car.
not used for transportation-in the middle of
the principal street .lof city, is unheard of
outside the city of Indianapolis. Would New
York allow transfer car on Broadway. Chi
cago one on State street, Cincinnati one on
Fourth street, Well. not much.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

TO have discovered, and has solemnly
announced, that all slaves who were married
during slavery must call on the county clerk
and have issued to them marriage cert fcates
In order to make their former marriages legal.
Accordingly. the old colored people, in large
numbers, are taking out new marriage certif-
Gates. As the county clerk receives a fee
for issuing the certificate the discovery is
likely to prove quite bonanza for the Off
eials. It is neat scheme for robbing the
colored people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
The Postal Telegraph.

Murat Ha1stead's New York Letter.
The government never could make money
ont of the telegraph The rates would be, as q
matter of principle, put down to prohibit profit
No doubt the annual deficiency would be large.
Do the workinemen, the poor men, the farmers
and mechanics of the country desire to tax
themselves for the accommodation of the rich3
Shall ninety-nine of our people be taxed to re-
duce to low cost the charges on the kilograms of
the hundredth mani 1t is fact that there are
not many kilograms sent per annnm in the
United Srates as there are inhabitants. We
have sixty millions of people, and the number of
kilograms. including the press dispatches, that
pass over the wires in year is not as
much. There not 1000 900 of the people Of
the United States who use the telegram. Shall
we tax everybody to pay for the alleged con-
venience and cheapness of the accommodation of
this small fraction of the population? Is the
Establishments of State official class for the
of the Democratic party asufficient inducements
About IS per cent. of the teleRraphing done is in
commercial business, and per cent. is family or
social business The great bulk of telegraphing
is between the various exchanges and money
centers, brokers and bankers and dealers of ev-
cry description in securities of all sorts. and
much of it is of a character that might be termed
speculative. Snail We tax the people at large TO
cheaper the cost of doing business IN Wall
street, Would the farmers to pay
for the diffusion of intelligence between
the stock and produce gamblers. WHO use the
telegraph wire for getting the inside OF
thinRs-that is, obtaining the earliest Informal
ton about Wall street operatons-and the use
of wires between the various streets of like
charactera This sort Of events causes the great
est amount of teIegraphne. There is enor-
nous system of gambling, represented in not
only bucket-shop dealings. but pool-rooms and
private agencies for the transmission of snort
ing events. horse-racng. baseball, prize fight
ing, athletic sports. Shall the fifty nine Of
the sixty million people who never telegraph. be
stampeded. by false cries and foolish illusions.
to bear the expense of this sporting businessR
Would it not be q better plan for the sharps in
Wall street, and gamblers generally to pay
their expenses in getting up dead sure
schemes to gain advantages through the earliest
inform ationl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25


New York Evening Post
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
at its recent convention at Nashville, Tenn,
adopted a resolution declaring that the principle
underlying the internal revenue tax on liquor is
wrong and advocating 1.-THE abolition of the in
ternai revenue on alcoholic liquors and tobacco,
for the reason that it operates to render more
difficult the securing and enforcement of pro-
hibitory laws. and postpones the day of
t;onai deliverauce." This is another Of those
performances by professed reformers which
make wonder that the cause which they adj
vocate can make any progress under such auspi-
ces. No fact is more certain or obvious than
that the tax upon liquors operates to raise the
price and thus diminish consumption. 1t is
equally certain and obvious that If the govern
ment surrenders the revenue of 500, 600 600
year which it gets from the tax on liquors,
it must keep $50, 900. 600 year of unnecessary
taxes upon the food and clothing of the people
In other words. If IL abolishes the tax on some
thing which people can dispense with, it must
maintain taxes DecessarIes In short, there
is not a consideration of sound finance good
morals which is not outraged by the suggestion
of repeating the liquor tax, and the spectacle Of
a convention of people who devoted to the
cause of temperance thus serving the cause OF
intemperance is g most melancholy one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

THE Chicago Times takes strong ground in
favor of restricting foreign IMMIGRATION by clos
ing the doors against paupers and the vicious
and dangerous classes. Under the latter head
should be included Anarchists and their
sympathizers of every degree. All the An
archists and Socialists in this country come
from Europe. We have use for them
We have more than We want now, and the
doors should be closed, locked and barred
against any more. We heartily agree with
the Times that 1.-THE growing American idea
of to-day is the prescription and exclusion of
foreigners on account of pernicious foreign
Ism, which includes anarchism, socialism,
dynamitisn, pauperism and every other form
md mode Of mental and moral disease"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

THE fact that clerk in the postoffice mis-
laid an important letter, and thus delayed its
delivery for a few days, has caused his dis
missal. AT any rate that is what the officials
say is the cause, but it will probably strike
most people that his politics had more to do
who for thirteen years has been serving the
public faithfully, has an excellent reputation
for honesty, and yet, because he mislays one
letter ont of the thousands he handles, he is
perfection in clerks-everybody is liable to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

THERE are indications of renewal of the
agitation in favor of government telegraph.
the arguments in favor of it are specions but
lnsound. They all belong to the vicious
theory Of paternal government. The best
government is that which touches the people
1t the fewest points, and which does for them
snly those things which they cannot do for
themselves. Experience proves that the tele-
graph business can be well managed by pri-
vate enterprise. There is no better or cheaper
telegraph system in the world to-day than
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

by all honest and fair-nninded men. Such
employers would be extsrtioners and tyrants
under any condition of society or circumstan-
ces. 1t is doubtful if they can ever be abol-
ished or reached by legislation; but, if possible,
they ought to be made to feel the censure of
enlightened public opinion. They would be
slave mastersi if they could, and, comparative
~ few in numbers as they are, they furnish a
seeming basis of truth. for the false and dan
gerous clamor concerning the slavery of labor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

THE New York Evening Post is forced to
the conclusion that the method adopted by
Postmaster general Villas in suddenly reviv-
third-class mail which has long been dead
letter, is a bad blot upon his administration.
The course of the President. of Mr.. Garland,
of Mr.. Villas, to say nothing of smaller fry. is
streaked and spotted affair. even in mug
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

i. ACCORDING to the present outlook consider
able portion of the DePauw estate will eventu-
ally go to the lawyers. 1t is great pity that
an amicable settlement could not have been ar
ranged to the satisfaction of all the heirs with
out a resort to the courts; but if the property
shall be dissipated the lesson that it is unwise.
to say nothing of being unjust and cruel, to dis
eliminate between children without reasons
made clear to all the world, may not be lost up
on wealthy citizens and may be worth to others
all it costs to the contestants in this case.